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i'm building a list of books to read while i withdraw from society as much as i can in order to stem my suicide for as long as possible. so far i have:

--no longer human
--steppenwolf
--a fernando pessoa poetry collection
--a john ashbery poetry collection
--ulysses
--I.J.
--shusaku endo's "silence"
--emil cioran's "the trouble w/ being born"
--deszso kosztolanyi's "skylark"
--some pynchon i suppose
--the iliad and the odyssey bc i still havent gotten to em
--white noise
--simulacra & simulation
--matsuo basho "the narrow read to the deep north"
--welcome to the N.H.K.
--joyce's play "exiles"
--madame bovary
--meditations

would love some more suggestions senpai, cheers.

>> No.9339381

Notes from underground
Behead all satans

>> No.9339438

Un Homme Qui Dort by Georges Perec

>> No.9339444

my diary desu

>> No.9340285
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9340285

>> No.9340304

>>9339361
Shelby Foote's Civil War or Decline and Fall

>> No.9340407

>>9339361
Count of Monte Cristo
Moby Dick
2666

>> No.9340427

>>9339361
That's a pretty fukin' good list.
Bon vyoage mon ami!

>> No.9341796

bump

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9341828

Especially Oblomov

>> No.9341897

>simlacra and simulation

lel

that list lacks some taoist classics

>> No.9341905

>>9341897
agreed. more tao anon

>> No.9341907

>>9339361
A rebours
Beckett's trilogy
The Passion According to GH
Emily Dickinson
Tao Qian
Hanshan

>> No.9341922

The Magic Mountain, In Search of Lost Time, The Man Without Qualities